Zichen Palace.

Zhao Huan looked at the ministers in the palace like an evil dragon entrenched on the dragon chair, and most of the ministers in the palace were cursing secretly in their hearts——

Isn't he comfortable that he can just talk about art and romance and cultivating immortals for a day just like he did when the emperor was in power? But such beautiful times are gone forever, and all kinds of messy government affairs are discussed in the court every day.

, I’m almost bored to death.

Especially the Yushitai, in the past two days, he has been brought out and reprimanded by officials again and again, and his salary has been fined month after month. It has almost become a shame to the court.

But when Zhao Huan looked at the ministers in the court, he felt extremely comfortable in his heart. He simply chose a more comfortable position and ordered: "Declarate the edict."

Wu Xin immediately bowed in agreement, took out the imperial edict from the tray held by the young eunuch beside him, unfolded it, glanced down at the ministers and then read aloud: "

The emperor was entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and the edict said: I am old enough to inherit the great industry. It is only about the merits of my ancestors, and I only obey the laws and regulations. When it is difficult for the officials to manage the people, they will seek to adapt to the situation. I am young and do not know the ancient wise kings who governed the world.

Wonderful. However, I heard that the ancient sage kings ruled the world.

, the people do not add taxes, and the sea is rich and abundant. Although I am not sensitive, I also yearn for it. According to this order, all the officials in the government and yamen have their own affairs. From now on, in the Song Dynasty, the number of Ding Fu is one hundred pieces per year for each Ding.

It’s a fixed quota, never any additional gifts!”

As soon as Wu Xin's voice fell, all the ministers in the court were stunned. For a while, no one came out to speak.

It was not until a long time later that a group of ministers, led by Dazai Li Gang, bowed and said: "The benevolence of officials has benefited the people. Please submit an edict to announce it to the world, so that the world will know your majesty's benevolence and love for the people!"

Zhao Huan raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said with a smile: "This edict should be announced to the world. Yushitai and Huangchengsi each sent people to read the edict to the people, so that the people would know about it and prevent any minor officials from harming them again.

People. If anyone touches or lays hands in it, the people can go to Beijing and beat the Dengwen drum to complain.

In addition, I said before that the land system should be changed, but now I have some ideas, so I will put them out for your discussion."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Huan simply stood up from the dragon chair, walked slowly and said: "Laozi said: The way of heaven is like stretching the bow to reach! The higher ones suppress it, the lower ones lift it, and those who have more will damage it.

, Give it to those who are deficient, and the way of heaven will make up for the deficiencies by making up for the losses. This is not the case with the way of humanity, which will make up for the deficiencies by giving more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world? The only one is the Tao.

Or it may be said: Gathering the wealth of the poor and humble in order to flatter the hearts of the noble; the bottom is bleeding, and the money is used up; the top is hiding too much but not using it all, or using it like sand. The damage is not enough to give more.

It is different from the way of heaven.

Mencius said: The way of the people is that those who have permanent property have perseverance, those without permanent property have no perseverance, and those who have no perseverance will do everything to avoid evil and extravagance.

Therefore, it is said: If you want to educate the people, you must first educate them; if you want to educate the people, you must first enrich the people; if you want to enrich the people, you must first buy the people's property."

Li Gang looked at Zhao Huan, who was making a long argument on the imperial steps, and felt in his heart countless mythical beasts rushing past together——

Do the officials today have knowledge? Of course they do! But after Yan Zongwang’s troops besieged Bianjing, the officials never mentioned anything about Shi Yun. Especially when they were in the army, they often cursed. Now,

This is the first time that I have said such level words!

But now the official family is both heavenly and humane, and they have moved out the Yasheng Mencius who advocated the idea of ​​small farmers. What exactly does the official family want to do? Rob the rich and give to the poor?

"If you don't set up a land system and don't suppress annexations, you'll be giving enough to what's not enough, which is contrary to the way of heaven. It's ridiculous to want to make the people like oxen and horses without thinking about taking care of the people's property or educating them!"

Zhao Huan went on to say: "I want to set up a land system with a stepped tax rate - if a common man named Wang has ten acres of land, the tax will be ten; if he has twenty acres of land, the tax will be twelve; if it is thirty acres, the tax will be fifteen; if there is thirty acres of land, the tax will be fifteen.

If there are ten acres, the tax will be 50, if there are 100 acres, the tax will be 200.

Of course, this is just an immature idea of ​​mine. I will need all of you to consult more and come up with a plan together."

Water tariffs are tiered, electricity tariffs are tiered, gas tariffs are tiered, personal income tax is also tiered, so why can’t land taxes be tiered?

If a person has ten acres of land under his name, the tax will be collected according to the basic tax law. If a person has one hundred acres of land under his name, the tax will be doubled based on the basic tax law. The more land a person has under his name, the tax will be doubled.

, the higher the tax will be!

Don’t you like to buy land? If you have the ability, just buy the land. Anyway, the system is here, and I will harvest it by the mu! If you have the guts, you can pass on all the extra tax rates to the tenant farmers. It’s best to force the people to rebel!

Even if we take a step back, there are a lot of open spaces in Yanyun now. If you increase the rent, the people will just go to Yanyun!

If you don’t dare, then just play the game of family division to avoid the tax rate——

But when it comes to family separation, it's easy to separate. Once someone gets a taste of the sweetness from the separation, it's not that easy to get back together again!

Of course, you can also fake family separation, but as Huang Kaiyin said well, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. As long as the family separation process is completed through the government, some people will have some ideas in their hearts!

In order to solve the problem of the land system in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan had already thought about all the possible ways to play the land system, such as the rent adjustment, the whip method, and the sharing of land between farmers and farmers. He even thought about resurrecting the military merit system.

But the crux of the problem is that the current tax system of the Song Dynasty is basically a copy of the mediocrity of renting, and then it is useless; the taxation method is similar to the one-whip method, which has various shortcomings, and it can easily cause population expansion.

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As for the military merit system... Zhao Huan dares to play with it, but Zhao Huan has no plans to revive the military merit system now.

After all, the essence of shedding wool is not to lose it all at once, but to pay attention to sustainable development - if you put the military merit system together now, what else will you do in the future? Just like those online writers, after one routine is written, do you have to change it to another?

Routine?

The principles are the same.

So Zhao Huan immediately put forward the routine of never increasing taxes, and then introduced a stepped tax law, putting all the problems directly on the surface——

If you are able, just make small moves. Anyway, Zhao Huan now has an army and the Imperial City Department in his hands, and he is not afraid of some people who are not afraid of death to jump out and rebel.

Naturally, the people in the court could see through this.

But if you can see through it, you can see through it. If you want to confront Zhao Huan, there is no way at all. Even if you want to add trouble to Zhao Huan, you can't do it.

Didn't you hear what the officials said? Let the Yushitai and the Imperial City Department send people to read the edict among the people. It is clear that the local government is on one line, the Yushitai is on the other side, and the Imperial City Department is on the other line.

And judging from the recent routines of today's officials, there is probably another hidden line hidden behind the scenes. Even if they want to do some small tricks behind the scenes, I'm afraid it won't be that easy.

Then the ministers began to miss Zhenzong, Renzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, Zhezong, especially Yushi Zhongcheng Jiaxiu, and now they miss the emperor even more...
Chapter completed!